Hi Adam,
It is recommended by the gurus that you don't upgrade your kernel
unless you have to. I did not listen, and ran into lots of problems.
1. The printer port disappeared (you have to find an answer to that
in the newsgroups).
2. Problems with pppd unexpectedly dying at Internet dialup
(I have no idea what the solution is!!!)
3. Midi is played extremely fast inside Netscape and outside sometimes.
(No solution yet!!!)
I am right now thinking about reinstalling Mandrake since I wasted
2 weeks. If you have lots of time and like to have lots of headache,
go ahead, upgrade it.
Cheers, Bela
(home page: http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/belantos/index.html)
At 25/04/1999 10:23:00, you wrote:
>Adam Wright wrote:
>>
>> I would like to upgrade my kernel for Linux Mandrake 5.3. I have D/Led
>> the newest kernel source files in RPM format. I think there were three
>> of them. One is the kernel, one is the header files and the last is the
>> source. Now I am at the point that I am not quite sure what to do. If I
>> just use the RPM installer in KDE does that take care of the upgrade, or
>> is there a different way to go about doing this. I am not very
>> proficient with Linux (yet) and I would appreciate any and all help.
>>
>> Adam Wright
>
>G'day Adam,
>
>Where did you get the files?
>
>What you need to do also is get all the files in the in the
>kernel2.2/update dir from that site, I also suggest that you look at the
>readme file and the instructions on kernel upgrade at the following
>sites:
>
>ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/kernel2.2/
>
>http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/kernel2.2-upgrade.html
>
>Hope this helps ;-))
>--
>Michael Doyle
>Adelaide, South Australia
>ICQ #2635762
>http://landofoz.apana.org.au
>
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